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Tony Mokbel leaves court on Friday.

‘Tony started the underworld’: The original gangland crime boss who survived and, eventually, beat the system

Gone from the streets but clearly not forgotten, news of Tony Mokbel’s release spread like wildfire throughout Melbourne’s underworld. But the reaction might not be what you think.

  • Chris Vedelago, Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola

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Detectives arrest a man in connection with the shooting death of bikie ‘Afghan Ali’.

Man appears in court over alleged murder of notorious bikie

Mohammed Akbar Keshtiar was gunned down outside his apartment building in South Yarra almost two years ago.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Cassandra Morgan
Ugochukwu George Anyakorah, a Nigerian living in Sydney, was working for a cyberscam syndicate and linked to the Buccaneers, a Nigerian campus cult, according to court documents.

The Nigerian ‘blood cult’ targeting lonely Australians with romance scams

A Sydney father was part of a Nigerian scam that took millions of dollars off lonely Australians, defrauded businesses and siphoned the money to a terrifying African gang.

  • Perry Duffin
An image of the man police want to speak to in relation to the fatal house fire that killed Katie Tangey.

Breakthrough in tobacco war firebombing that killed Katie Tangey

Police have released an image of a suspect in the underworld-linked house fire that killed a 27-year-old burlesque performer in Melbourne earlier this year.

  • Alexander Darling and Marta Pascual Juanola
Tony Mokbel arriving to court on Tuesday.

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel wants to taste freedom for the first time in 18 years

If released, Mokbel will be free for the first time since 2007, when he was famously arrested in Greece disguised in a wig.

  • Erin Pearson and Chris Vedelago
Sarah Benson takes over Sport Integrity Australia after a long career with the Australian Federal Police.

Sport’s new top cop warns of integrity risk from cocaine and criminal links

Former AFP chief forensic scientist Sarah Benson has also prioritised rebuilding trust in the global anti-doping system and the safeguarding of children in sport.

  • Chris Barrett
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The casino and Queens Wharf complex in Brisbane.

Revealed: Bombshell report into shady casino links they didn’t want you to see

A secret government report concluded the Hong Kong company that rescued Star from financial collapse concealed its relationship with a notorious junket operator.

  • Harriet Alexander
Victoria Police target the Outlaws Motorcycle gang’s national run back in 2013.

The bikies’ deadly code of silence

This wasn’t about snitching to police but telling the truth about the death of an innocent man, so the victim’s family could have some answers.

  • John Silvester
CCTV footage of attempted extortion of tobacco shop.

Tobacco war at ‘turning point’ thanks to informers, say police

Victoria Police says the public, as well as members of a tobacco crime syndicate, are starting to co-operate with officers.

  • Chris Vedelago
Thomas Goertz has been charged with allegedly helping Sayit Erhan Akca flee Australia.

The ‘hedonist’ sailor and the caravan terror plot suspect

‘Anti-authoritarian adventurer’ Thomas Goertz allegedly helped accused drug smuggler Sayit Erhan Akca flee authorities.

  • Riley Walter

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